Thank you, Madam Chair. Just in regard to that, I think there should be an increase looked at, because of the cost of living. These individuals who are elderly, and people with disabilities, do not have the opportunity to work extra, if they're allowed to. If you're going to do that, I think that the program established should be monitored in regard to increasing, because the cost of living in the North is only getting higher and higher with the cost of food and just the cost of living as a whole. If they're going to do this, they should be increasing in regard to helping our disability and our elders. Because, right now, if you're not employed, everybody goes to nanak's and dadak's, your grandparents' house, to go eat and they're not going to say no to you. These are the ones who are hurting the most in regard to that, because they get their pension cheques and, you know, it's tough to see in regard to that because they're utilizing all their monies just for food, to help their family. Everybody is like that. You know that, Madam Chair, in regard to how we treat our families back home. So I think something like that, the Minister should really take a look at it; increasing for our elders. Thank you.
Jackie Jacobson on Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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